Even with the price of milk being low. The milk production has increased as much as 11%,. Overall production, last month was 17.2 billion lbs., up 1.3%.
Unemployed rate has hit a near 44-year low and H-2A visa requests have more than doubled. Immigration reform bills making their way to the House floor this week.
U.S. Egg market moving back toward normal production. U.S. dairy industry is on edge with Mexico. USDA is done with Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices.
NAFTA talks, Canada looks less dependent on U.S. diary imports. The wheat market could see improvement. A change to how the Renewable Fuel Standard is run.
The top U.S. trade negotiator opened the historic renegotiation of NAFTA last week by bluntly warning the pact has “fundamentally failed many Americans” despite its benefits to farmers and border communities and needs “major improvement.”
**The National Association of Counties, National Farmers Union and 13 other organizations are asking Congress to block the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate USDA’s undersecretary for rural development.
In a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Ag committees, the groups say the plan will downgrade rural development programs within USDA, not elevate their importance as the administration